Friday, July 3, 2020

Chrome for Android is finally going to be a 64-bit app soon

Rejoice! Chrome for Android is going 64-bit! Don't worry, you aren't reading news from the past, this is actually a thing that's happening in 2020, and, for some reason, not way sooner. Apple's iOS has been fully 64-bit, third party apps included, for almost three years now, but things sometimes take much longer to develop in the Android world, even if we're talking first-party apps that should serve as an example to third-party developers. Anyway, the move is happening with Chrome release 85, which is due to hit the stable channel in August. Chrome 85 is currently in the Dev channel,...